Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

There is a growing debate among conservative thinkers and pundits about whether Darwinian theory helps or harms conservatism and its public policy agenda. Some have argued forcefully that Darwin's theory provides support for conservative positions on family life, economics, bioethics, and other issues, while others have countered that the effort...

Should student in science classes be taught alternative theories to evolution?

When a federal judge in Pennsylvania struck down the efforts of a local school board to teach "intelligent design," he rightly criticized the wholly unscientific nature of that enterprise.

The renewed clamoring to rush through Congress a European-style climate bill before the international climate talks convene in Denmark has shoved aside debate over whether alternative carbon control strategies, such as a carbon tax, might be a better choice both economically and environmentally.

A review of Harry Bruinius's Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity.

Tennessee's textbook at issue in the Scopes Monkey Trial promotes Darwinian biology--and racial eugenics.